About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

October 4......

October 4 is the 277th (278th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 88 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Fascism "I am worried that we are going through a kind of anti-liberal revolt, belief in a very strong state, a contempt for pluralism, for a "soft" welfare state, and a sense that we cannot afford certain freedoms." — Abbott Gleason

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Family Values "These people who work in those buildings are not innocent victims. If they work in the Federal Building, they're the very people that are typing the letters, that are making the phone calls, that are getting your land taken away from you, that are calling you up on Internal Revenue Service, that want to confiscate all of your guns. These are the same people who womp up charges against you. These are the very same people that are all involved, every one of them.

I don't care whether they're any more than a clerk or the high muckety-muck or the guy who's got BATF painted on his back, and he's the one who's knocking your door down. These people are not innocent victims. These are people that operate and move the system against you and I. These are people that have sold out to the system. These are people that are against you and I." — John Dayl, talk show host for KFYI, Phoenix, AZ, 7-21-96, on the bombing of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. "Extra! Update: Contra Crack," FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), 9-24-96. {This idiot totally ignored the many dead children in the day care center located in the building.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "The Maastricht Treaty . . . has been dealt, at least temporarily, fatal blow." — Des O'Malley, Irish government minister

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

50th Anniversary of Sputnik: Traveling Companion

Photo Credit: Courtesy NSSDC, NASAClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

● 1244 - The Damascus Moslems, with their allies the Templars, Hospitalers, and other Franks, march on Cairo and the Khwarismians.

● 1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.

● 1535 - First complete English translation of the Bible printed in Zurich. "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for America!"

● 1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

● 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15. Other countries would follow sporadically with England and possessions being one of the last in 1752, 170 years down the road.

● 1636 - The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.

● 1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.

● 1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.

● 1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.

● 1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.

● 1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).

● 1798 - Republican Congressman Matthew Lyon of Vermont is sentenced to four months in jail under John Adams' Sedition Act, after criticizing President Adams in a campaign speech.

● 1816 - Birth of Eugene Potter, Paris. Poet, revolutionist. Participant in the Revolution of 1848, Paris Commune of 1881. It was then he wrote the Internationale, put to music by Pierre de Geyter in 1888, which brought him recognition as it is adopted by workers worldwide.

● 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

● 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.

● 1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.

● 1855 - Kamiakan, chief of the Yakama, defeats forces under Major Haller; first engagement of Yakama War.

● 1902 - Birth of Lucien Tronchet, Geneva. Anarchist and Swiss trade unionist. Anti-fascist activities led to prison. Went with Bertoni to Spain in 1936, fought with the anarchists against Franco. After WWII he remained a militant trade unionist, and fought for abortion rights, anti-militarism, and creation of co-operatives. Supported the squatters movement in Geneva.

● 1910 - Twenty-year-old King Manuel II of Portugal overthrown fleeing to the United Kingdom. Fighting lasts only through breakfast time, and a republic is established at lunch. On the 7th, the anti-church provisional government orders all nuns and monks to leave the country.

● 1910 - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.

● 1912 - Nicaraguan General Zeledon, an opponent of U.S. occupation, is executed.

● 1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which are still being found in 2007.

● 1921 - Riccardo Zanella becomes first elected president of Free State of Fiume.

● 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore.

● 1936 - The Battle of Cable St. - Londoners stop a march by the British Union of Fascists.

● 1960 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.

● 1961 - Mass arrest of three SNCC members and 110 Negro high school students praying on McComb (Miss.) City Hall steps in protest of Lee's slaying and suspension of two Freedom Riders--ends SNCC voter registration project.

● 1965 - The first Pope to ever visit the United States of America, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

● 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.

● 1975 - A Cessna 310Q airplane crashes over Wilmington, North Carolina, killing the pilot and severely injuring several pro wrestlers affiliated with the NWA's Mid-Atlantic promotion. One of the survivors is the legendary Ric Flair.

● 1976 - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to racist remark. {In the end, he was the butt of his own joke.}

● 1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.

● 1997 - Demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and across the country (including Seattle) protest the scheduled launch of the space probe Cassini with a plutonium payload.

● 1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.

● 2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.

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